Karen Black
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karen Black (July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. Over the course of her career, she won two Golden Globe Awards (out of three nominations), and an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress, among numerous other honors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karen Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jul 1, 1939 In Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 139
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Prime Time 1960-04-01
- Latest Project:
- Movie Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street 2019-04-05
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-05 |
| Movie | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Self (archive footage) | 2015-01-25 |
| Movie | Wild in Blue | Justine | 2014-05-05 |
| Movie | Ooga Booga | Mrs. Allardyce | 2013-03-12 |
| Movie | She Loves Me Not | Karla | 2013-06-09 |
| Movie | Mommy's Little Monster | Mrs. Melnick | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | OowieWanna | The Donna | 2012-02-18 |
| Movie | Maria My Love | Maria | 2012-04-17 |
| Movie | Dark Blood | Motel Woman | 2012-09-27 |
| Movie | Letters from the Big Man | Sean's Colleague | 2011-11-11 |
| Movie | Nothing Special | May | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | BBStory: An American Film Renaissance | Self | 2010-11-23 |
| Movie | Irene in Time | Sheila Shivvers | 2009-06-19 |
| Movie | Repo Chick | Aunt De La Chasse | 2009-09-09 |
| Movie | No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos | Self | 2009-01-11 |
| Movie | Stuck! | 2009-11-15 | |
| Movie | Double Duty | Annabelle | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Contamination | Mavis | 2008-05-01 |
| Movie | Watercolors | Mrs. Martin | 2008-06-07 |
| Movie | A Single Woman | Storyteller | 2008-09-21 |
| Movie | Ghost Writer | Renee | 2007-03-09 |
| Movie | Hollywood Dreams | Luna | 2007-05-25 |
| Movie | One Long Night | Barbara | 2007-03-25 |
| Movie | Wanderlust | Herself | 2006-07-12 |
| Movie | America Brown | Marianne Brown | 2005-10-28 |
| Movie | Dr. Rage | Molly | 2005-01-01 |
| Movie | Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula | Agrippina | 2005-06-15 |
| Movie | Firecracker | Sandra / Eleanor | 2005-10-11 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | Paris | Chantelle | 2003-06-06 |
| Movie | House of 1000 Corpses | Mother Firefly | 2003-04-11 |
| Movie | Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 1 | ("Los Vampirios Moronious" short) | 2002-02-19 |
| Movie | Plotting 'Family Plot' | Self | 2001-03-06 |
| Movie | Soulkeeper | Martha la Magnifica | 2001-01-01 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Gypsy 83 | Bambi LeBleau | 2001-10-18 |
| Movie | Fallen Arches | Lucy Romano | 2000-01-15 |
| Movie | Red Dirt | Aunt Summer | 2000-03-17 |
| Movie | The Independent | Karen Black | 2000-11-10 |
| Series | Family Guy | Unknown | 1999-01-31 |
| Movie | Conceiving Ada | Lady Byron / Mother Coer | 1999-02-19 |
| Movie | Paradise Cove | Ma | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | Mascara | Aunt Eloise | 1999-05-07 |
| Movie | Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage | Self | 1999-10-07 |
| Movie | Light Speed | High Priestess | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Invisible Dad | Courtney Whitmer | 1998-03-24 |
| Movie | I Woke Up Early the Day I Died | Whip Lady | 1998-09-13 |
| Movie | Charades | Jude | 1998-12-17 |
| Movie | Angel Blue | Social Worker | 1998-11-15 |
| Movie | Stir | Dr. Gabrielle Kessler | 1997-07-01 |
| Movie | Men | Alex | 1997-10-23 |
| Movie | Cries of Silence | Rose Walsh | 1996-05-01 |
| Movie | Crimetime | Millicent | 1996-08-01 |
| Movie | Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering | June Rhodes | 1996-10-08 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | Dogtown | Rose Van Horn | 1996-10-01 |
| Movie | Starstruck | Bertha | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Plan 10 from Outer Space | Nehor | 1995-02-23 |
| Movie | Dinosaur Valley Girls | Ro-Kell | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Return of the Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | 1993-04-15 |
| Movie | Legend of The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | 1993-06-25 |
| Series | Moon Over Miami | Unknown | 1993-09-15 |
| Movie | Bound and Gagged: A Love Story | Carla | 1993-10-22 |
| Movie | Final Judgement | Mrs. Sorrel | 1992-06-01 |
| Movie | The Player | Karen Black | 1992-04-03 |
| Movie | Judgement | Tiffany Powers | 1992-08-05 |
| Movie | The Double 0 Kid | Mrs. Elliot | 1992-09-07 |
| Movie | Auntie Lee's Meat Pies | Auntie Lee | 1992-10-21 |
| Movie | The Killers Edge | Barrett | 1991-04-12 |
| Movie | Caged Fear | Blanche | 1991-05-17 |
| Movie | Quiet Fire | Kim Martino | 1991-10-31 |
| Movie | The Roller Blade Seven | Tarot | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | Twisted Justice | Mrs. Granger | 1990-03-20 |
| Movie | Overexposed | Mrs. Trowbridge | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Zapped Again! | Homeroom Teacher | 1990-04-14 |
| Movie | Evil Spirits | Ella Purdy | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | Night Angel | Rita | 1990-06-02 |
| Movie | Mirror Mirror | Susan Gordon | 1990-10-19 |
| Movie | Club Fed | Sally Rich | 1990-08-09 |
| Movie | Haunting Fear | Dr. Julia Harcourt | 1990-08-01 |
| Movie | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Martha Gelhorn | 1988-01-01 |
| Movie | The Invisible Kid | Mom | 1988-03-30 |
| Movie | Dixie Lanes | Zelma Putnam | 1988-05-03 |
| Movie | Out of the Dark | Ruth Wilson | 1988-06-02 |
| Movie | The Little Mermaid | Sea Witch | 1987-04-06 |
| Movie | It's Alive III: Island of the Alive | Ellen Jarvis | 1987-05-27 |
| Movie | Hostage | Laura Lawrence | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | Flight of the Spruce Goose | Gloria | 1986-01-17 |
| Movie | Invaders from Mars | Linda Magnusson | 1986-06-06 |
| Movie | Savage Dawn | Rachel | 1986-05-22 |
| Movie | Eternal Evil | Janus | 1985-01-04 |
| Movie | Martin's Day | Karen | 1985-02-22 |
| Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
| Movie | Bad Manners | Gladys Fitzpatrick | 1984-11-11 |
| Series | The Hitchhiker | Unknown | 1983-11-01 |
| Movie | Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Zee | 1983-09-10 |
| Movie | Miss Right | Amy | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Joanne | 1982-11-12 |
| Movie | The Last Horror Film | Karen Black (uncredited) | 1982-08-12 |
| Movie | Separate Ways | Valentine Colby | 1981-05-01 |
| Movie | Chanel Solitaire | Emilienne d'Alençon | 1981-01-01 |
| Movie | The Grass Is Singing | Mary Turner | 1981-08-30 |
| Movie | Power | Rose Vanda-Buchanan | 1980-01-14 |
| Movie | Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop | Investigator Evelyn Carter | 1980-04-28 |
| Movie | Mr. Horn | Ernestina Crawford | 1979-02-01 |
| Movie | Killer Fish | Kate | 1979-12-07 |
| Movie | The Last Word | Paula Herbert | 1979-10-10 |
| Movie | In Praise of Older Women | Maya | 1978-09-22 |
| Movie | The Squeeze | Clarisse Saunders | 1978-10-25 |
| Movie | The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver | Miriam Oliver / Sandy | 1977-02-28 |
| Movie | Capricorn One | Judy Drinkwater | 1977-12-10 |
| Movie | Crime and Passion | Susan Winters | 1976-02-06 |
| Movie | Family Plot | Fran | 1976-04-09 |
| Movie | Trilogy of Terror | Julie / Millicent Larimore / Therese Larimore / Amelia | 1975-03-04 |
| Movie | The Day of the Locust | Faye Greener | 1975-05-07 |
| Movie | Nashville | Connie White | 1975-06-11 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Movie | Rhinoceros | Daisy | 1974-01-21 |
| Movie | The Great Gatsby | Myrtle Wilson | 1974-03-27 |
| Movie | Airport 1975 | Nancy Pryor | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | Law and Disorder | Gloria | 1974-10-09 |
| Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
| Movie | Little Laura and Big John | Laura | 1973-05-03 |
| Movie | The Outfit | Bett Harrow | 1973-10-19 |
| Movie | The Pyx | Elizabeth Lucy | 1973-09-08 |
| Movie | Cisco Pike | Sue | 1972-01-14 |
| Movie | Portnoy's Complaint | Mary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey | 1972-06-19 |
| Series | Ghost Story | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
| Movie | Drive, He Said | Olive | 1971-06-13 |
| Movie | Born to Win | Parm | 1971-12-01 |
| Movie | Five Easy Pieces | Rayette Dipesto | 1970-09-12 |
| Movie | Easy Rider | Karen | 1969-06-26 |
| Movie | Hard Contract | Ellen | 1969-04-30 |
| Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
| Movie | You're a Big Boy Now | Amy Partlett | 1966-12-09 |
| Series | The Big Valley | Unknown | 1965-09-15 |
| Series | Run for Your Life | Unknown | 1965-09-13 |
| Movie | The Prime Time | Betty | 1960-04-01 |